UH football moves down the radio dial to 950 AM

A worker with UBU Sports hauls a stencil of a number two across the newly installed turf.

A worker with UBU Sports hauls a stencil of a number two across the newly installed turf.

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Workers with UBU Sports use stencils of numbers as they cut white turf to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Workers with UBU Sports use stencils of numbers as they cut white turf to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle

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Workers with UBU Sports use stencils of numbers as they cut white turf to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Workers with UBU Sports use stencils of numbers as they cut white turf to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle

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Detail of the white turf that is used to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Detail of the white turf that is used to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

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Workers with UBU Sports use stencils of numbers as they cut white turf to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Workers with UBU Sports use stencils of numbers as they cut white turf to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle

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Overall view of the newly installed turf.

Overall view of the newly installed turf.

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Media members take photos and video of the newly installed turf.

Media members take photos and video of the newly installed turf.

Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle

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Workers with UBU Sports use stencils of numbers as they cut white turf to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Workers with UBU Sports use stencils of numbers as they cut white turf to make the yard markers, which will be sewn into the green turf.

Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle

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UH football moves down the radio dial to 950 AM

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University of Houston football games will move this fall to Clear Channel Communications’ KPRC (950 AM), the university and station said Monday.

UH football games in recent years have aired on KBME (790 AM), which also airs Astros and Rockets games plus Texas A&M football and basketball games. That resulted in occasional time conflicts that require moving UH game broadcasts to other Clear Channel-owned stations, and school officials said the football move to 950 AM “offers UH fans a consistent spot on their radio dial.”

“We have a home Houston fans know they can turn to when the Cougars are in action without being affected by the schedules of any other organization,” Mack Rhoades, the school’s athletic director, said in a university statement.

Returning on UH football broadcasts this fall will be play-by-play announcer Kevin Eschenfelder, analyst Ted Pardee, sideline reporter Jeremy Branham and pregame host Matt Thomas. Thomas and Elvin Hayes will return on UH men’s basketball games, which moved to 950 AM a year ago.

Branham will host football coach Tony Levine’s weekly radio show and Thomas will host basketball coach Kelvin Sampson’s weekly show on 950 AM.